Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since he became President, Franklin Roosevelt last week made a political speech in Manhattan. The occasion was the Jefferson birthday dinner* of the National Democratic Club. Its importance was that New York is rated a close state in 1936 calculations. Any serious wavering on the part of New York City's nominally heavy Democratic majority might cost Democrat Roosevelt New York's 47 votes in the Electoral College. With Alfred Emanuel Smith and James John Walker notably absent, the powers of Democratic politics in New York sat down to dine with President Roosevelt in the Commodore...
...less than fifteen ephemeral publications have glimpsed the light of a University day since the gay nineties squandered money on superfluous petticoats. Ranging from a weighty political work like the "Harvard Democrat" to such froth as the "Harvard Brewers' Gazette", most of them were lucky if issue number two ever came off the press...
...would seem that the University suffered considerable degeneration as the 20th century toddled from its cradle. Where the question of Imperialism filled the pages of the "Harvard Democrat" in 1900, the following item appeared in the "Harvard Anarchist...
Last summer President Roosevelt, a Northern Democrat, received a delegation of Negro Elks in his office, allowed himself to be photographed with them (TIME, Aug. 12). Still more shocking to Southern sensibilities was it when Mrs. Roosevelt addressed the Women's Faculty Club of Washington's Howard University (Negro), let herself be photographed between two young Negro officers of the University R.O.T.C. By count of Chicago's Negro Representative Arthur Mitchell last August, President Roosevelt had given more jobs to blackamoors than had all three preceding Republican Presidents put together. To a North Carolina Negro businessman...
Mayor Kelly last week had two alternatives: 1) play ball with Democrat Horner; or 2) hold fast to the Tribune's apron-strings and lend silent support to the Tribune's Lawyer Brooks, who proved himself an able political personality by swamping Small and the five other Republican hopefuls...